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If you open an article on a train you could always scroll to the bottom of the page before you start reading it in order to load all the resources.
Lazy loading also allows any network operator (and FVEY et al) to surveil your progress reading any particular web page based on when the additional image requests are generated.
How are they inspecting your network traffic?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_analysis
To stop this, we'd have to saturate the link 100% of the time even when no useful communications are taking place.
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It is the web developers choice to decide whether or not to deal with bad/poor internet connections. Most do not. Lazy loading makes it impossible to do anything to manage a poor connection.
> Lazy loading makes it impossible to do anything to manage a poor connection. This was the exact problem lazy loading was supposed to solve
Eh, mistakenly clicking an ad or irrelevant content when trying to click a link because the page loaded some async content at the last millisecond is far worse.
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Both of these seem like uncommon edge cases. I can't remember the last time I actually "saved a webpage" - I think in my using the web for nearly the past 30 years that functionality hardly ever worked well in the first place. I do use print-to-PDF fairly often, but honestly don't know how lazy load works in that scenario. If you choose to print all pages and it doesn't include lazy loaded images, I'd just consider t…
For you, they are uncommon edge cases. For me, they are everyday usage.
I guess the lack of user control here is the annoying part. Hopefully in the next round of standards updates this makes it in.
I generally dislike lazy loading. My time is almost always worth more than data transfer costs, so I'd much rather load up a bunch of stuff I might not see so that in the office chance I fast scroll down the page I don't have to wait for anything.
You're thinking of your own costs; the developer is more likely thinking of their own than yours.
I would rather a user see the whole page, consume all the content, it’s not a big cost.